FS Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited" portrays the main character Charlie with a strong correllation with Fitzgerald. The bond between Fitzgerald and Charlie Wales is not as shallow as the contempt that Fitzgerald holds for the life that both he and Charlie experienced: both Charlie and Fitzgerald experience financial success, suffering marriages, and alcoholism.

One of the most well-known authors of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald based his fictitious writings on his own wild, tragic life experiences and struggles. His most renowned work, The Great Gatsby, reveals more than what appears on the surface; in it, Fitzgerald exposed what he saw as the flaws of the "American Dream" and how it led to self-indulgence, greed, and ultimately disillusionment and self-destruction.

The distinct similarities between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby are very easy to see throughout the novel The Great Gatsby. F. Scott is widely known for putting his everyday life into his novels.

An essay examining how obession can eventually lead to a characters downfall as in "The Great Gatsby."

In Ernest Hemingway's short story, "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber" The main character, Francis and his wife Margaret, are on a safari with a man named Robert Wilson. Francis and Margaret fight about many things when he runs away from a charging lion. In the end, Margaret who was trying to protect him from a charging wounded buffalo "accidentally" shoots him. The theme that is being conveyed is that facing one's fears can lead to happiness in some way or another.

Should people always tell the truth, or it is sometimes better to lie? Some people prefer to hide themselves behind a wall of lies rather than face the truth and deal with it. It is an incontestable fact that truth hurts, but without it people can never create trustful relationships or reach real happiness. This can be observed in families' relationships. Every family has secrets that remain hidden somewhere in the deepest drawers; secrets that people keep in order to protect themselves, or their beloveds. Such secrets, however, may ruin the trust, communication, and love among the members of these families. In the novel the curiosity incident of the dog in the night-time and the film Secrets and Lies, Mark Haddon and Mike Leigh examine secrets and lies in the Boone and Parley families. In these works, real happiness comes when characters face the painful truth.

Though Brown's style of writing in The Da Vinci Code has been said to have minor flaws because of the way he presents his "facts", in reality it makes the story stronger.

In "Sound and the Fury," William Faulkner portrays the Compson family as representative of fading Southern culture and traditions.

In the book Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, the author has added the effect of parallelism of today's society and his fictional society in which Guy Montag, the main character, lives.

Provides an analysis of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Discusses how the author uses imagery, tone and other literary techniques to develop theme and setting.

Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 depicts a society that is controlled by the television and shows how members of that society live their lives vicariously through the television. This essay considers the ways in which today's society is influenced or even controlled by the media, as it is in the book.

Reviews the novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury. Provides a plot summary. Describes Montag's search for personal identity. Explores conflicts in the novel.

This essay compares the lives of the the main character Guy Montag.

Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 is really a political commentary about political corruption and censorship, written as a warning to future generations about oppressive conservative governments. It serves as a warning to society to change its ways before it is too late.

Examines how faith can take on many forms. Explores the theme of faith in a variety of texts, including Anne Bradstreet's, "Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House," in Mary Rowlandson's account of captivity by Native American entitled " A Narrative of the captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson," and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography.

Fallen Angels is a novel based on the Vietnam War. Essay discusses the plot and gives a summary.

Examines the book Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers. Details the experiences of soldiers in the Vietnam War. Tells how soldiers in the Vietnam War had to deal with different climates and how they had to alter their daily routines in reaction to the weather.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, illustrates a wealthy gentleman by the name of Gatsby who achieves greatness through his desire and determination to win over the love of his life, Daisy. Everything from Gatsby's wealth to his background was an illusion of significance. His desire for Daisy led him to create a character who supposedly possessed greatness. He lived under the false pretenses of being wealthy.

In Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," the lies and excuses of the Loman family led to the inevitable breakdown of the family. The plot of the play is described.

Discusses famliy troubles in the short story "A Domestic Dilemma" by Carson McCullers. Explores the effect that alcoholism has on Martin, Emily and their family.

Discusses The Chrysalids, a novel set in post-apocalyptic Labrador. This essay deals with the fanatical views of the Waknuk people, and how they lead to unecessary fear.

This essay is about the short story, "The Standard of Living" and how setting can play a major role in a story.

Essay describes how the story of "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien contains fantasy that relates to reality.

This essay is about fate and what it really means. I use references from a story called "The Necklace" to reiterate my thoughts on fate.

This essay is about the father and son relationships in Elie's book "Night."

Atticus Finch evaluation of the parent

Themes,conflicts, symbolism and narrative elements of A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner.

Essay provides a commentary of William Faulkner's literary tactics in "A Rose for Emily."

Essay discusses "The Women of Light in August" by William Faulkner and his negative portrayal of them.

Dr. Faustus by Marlowe is a story about a man that will give his soul to the devil to have power. Faustus was a Renaissance man, and everything he already had just wasn't enough, he was always searching for more. At the end of the play Faustus' time on Earth was coming to an end, and he had one last chance to say whatever he wanted to say. In this speech he talks about his pact with Lucifer, asks for repentance, and discusses the reality of the situation he has been in.

The narrators' fears lead them to commit violence and murder in two Edgar Allen Poe stories: "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat."

Explains the significance of the theme fear, in the text "Lord or the Flies."

Fear is a principal theme in Richard Wright's novel Native Son. Fear influences the protagonist, Bigger, through his actions, his interactions and relationships with others, and the way he views and is viewed by society.

Describes how fear controls the lives of the characters in the novel "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller.

Lord of the Flies is a relatively short book, but within its small amount of text William Golding is able to do much more than tell an exciting story. He delves deep into human nature and the natural corruption in people's souls. He specifically explores the impact that fear has on people and how it makes them act. In Golding's eyes, humans are doomed just as the children on the island are, and that is because of fear. He believes that just the presence of terror causes people to overreact and lose common sense, tearing away at the bonds that hold society together. In an attempt to calm or soothe their worries, people end up separating, singling out others and letting their inner savage take over, leaving themselves in an even worse situation.

Fearless by Francine Pascal is about a girl names Gaia that isn't afraid of nothing.  Her father left her when her mother had died and she had been from house to house.

"Go Ask Alice"
It is written about the main character Alice and her struggles with the new counter-culture of the 60's.

Discusses 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Examines why Fitzgerald chooses to filter his female characters through a male perspective. Analyzes Fitzgerald's portrayal of women in the novel, focusing on the character of Daisy.

The gender and racial discrimination against black women in the post-World War I South is examined in the Alice Walker novel "The Color Purple. The main character, Celie, comes to realize the injustices her race and gender have experienced as you lives her life.

Essay examines the possiblity of feminism in Toni Morrison's "Beloved."

An examination of the feminist view exhibited in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper."

Examines Margaret Mitchell's famous novel, Gone With the Wind. Analyzes the character of Scarlet and questions if she is a feminist. Examines the character in a historical context.

This essay explains how Harriet Jacob's uses feminism both in authorship and audience analysis as a means to force her voice to be heard. It discusses the different ways she reaches her specific audience, which is made up of the free white women of the north.

A look at Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening through a feminist perspective. Tired of being controlled by her husband, Edna struggles to be free and liberated, but the destructive male influences in her life cause her to drown herself in the ocean. Chopin wrote the novel as a personal view of late nineteenth-century women's lives and as a call for women not to submit to the rule of their husbands.

This essay analyzes the literature and linguistic content of The Color Purple, by Alice Walker.

In Fences, by August Wilson, protagonist Troy cannot control his life and those around him. Examples cited and discussed include his baseball career, his family life, and racial issues such as prejudice and segregation.

Essay provides a book report on the novel "Ferdinand Magellan: Master Mariner."

In Ray Bradbury's science-fiction classic "The Martian Chronicles," some events are fiction, but clearly could happen, such as how rockets affect the environment around them. But some elements of the story are clearly fantasy, such as humans living on Mars without breathing apparatuses.

For my writer's craft class in OAC (grade 13, its an Ontario thing...), we had to discuss a book, including its style, structure, themes, etc... I chose Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club.

An examination of Fight Club, the novel and movie including Fight Club as a social movement